The 2017 Brown Bears football team represented

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in the

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. They were led by 20th-year head coach

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and played their home games at

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. They are a member of the

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. They finished the season 2–8, 0–7 in Ivy League play, to finish in eighth place. Brown averaged 4,858 fans per game.

Schedule

The 2017 schedule consisted of four home games, five away games, and one game against

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. The Bears hosted Ivy League foes

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and Penn, and traveled to

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, and Columbia. As in 2016, Brown's non-conference opponents were

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of the Northeast Conference,

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of the

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, and

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of the Pioneer Football League.

Game summaries

Bryant

Harvard

Rhode Island

Stetson

Princeton

Cornell

Penn

Yale

Dartmouth

Columbia

References

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Brown Bears football seasons

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